Thinking about the #Tumblr engineer who said they believe interoperability with the social web would just be a cost center and wouldn’t bring any profits. The point is not how interoperability affects the bottom line, the point is that it allows your platform to survive in an ever changing social media landscape and have a bottom line at all. If #Pebble was part of the social web, they would have had a network of 1.8M active users, not 1,000, and perhaps wouldn’t have had to shut down.
Tipp: Man muss seine Fitness-Uhr nicht zwangsläufig mit den datenhungrigen Apps der Anbieter betreiben. Es gibt schon seit längerer Zeit Gadgetbridge - falls euer Gerät unterstützt wird, ist das eine echte Alternative! ⌚
@gadgetbridge gibt es eine Möglichkeit die Gadgetbridge auch ohne Benachrichigung zu benutzen? Insbesondere ohne die Benachrichtigungen durch "Warnmeldungen"?
I went to the community health center because I felt sick. You can receive medical examinations and treatments for free if you are registered with the Social Security Agency on Health; if not, medical examinations and all forms of medicine can be obtained for a single US dollar. Of course, you have to visit the hospital for more complicated illnesses.
Il y avait une petite commu sympathique sur #Pebble (ex-T2), un réseau social "plus gentil et plus safe" qui n'avait malheureusement pas grand-chose d'autre à proposer que de la bonne volonté : le patron a annoncé mardi que le service fermerait ses portes la semaine prochaine. En cause, la concurrence (de Bluesky ?) qu'ils n'avaient pas vu venir.
Ever since the update to iOS17, I was unable to use my #Pebble watch due to the sideloaded Pebble app constantly crashing badly. But I recently found out that iMazing could help restore the original IPA which is supposed to be a bit less broken than sideloaded. It seems to be indeed the case. Now I can at least load and manage apps/watchfaces. This is giving me more confidence that I can get back to using regular #watches and transition away from the #Apple Watch by using the Pebble time.
We're working on a piece about #retro darlings — those pieces of #tech that refuse to die because of communities that have sprung up around them to keep them alive. We're looking at #Pebble / @rebble, #Sony#aibo, #chumby, and various retro #gaming#consoles and #handhelds, as well as numerous #retrocomputing platforms — what are some other beloved devices and dedicated folks and communities that should be on our radar? 🤘💾🤘
Apparently there's a social media site founded by ex-Twitter-employees called Pebble (formerly T2), and they say it's "the kinder, safer, more fun public square, enriched with AI."
They also say, "We look at your past social history to be sure you will enjoy Pebble, and then invite you in."
You have to have a Twitter account to request an invite. If you're not active enough for them, they'll reassign your username.
Final thoughts from one of the founders of Pebble. Pebble was full of kind people. The hobbit shire of social media. And it wasn't enough. A good read.
"Being kinder and safer is not enough of a differentiator, because kindness and safety by themselves aren’t interesting enough. There was not enough interesting content on the platform for the experience to become a daily habit."
Have just said farewell to #Pebble, definitely one of the friendliest of the post-Twitter platforms. I joined Mastodon a year ago, but haven’t been here much. Maybe that will change in the coming days? Might need to curate my follows a little! @t2pub